Lolita In Tehran Essay

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Before both the Iranian and Argentina revolutions, women were living under strict restrictions within the private and public spheres. Throughout the revolutions, as shown in both Reading Lolita in Tehran and Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, women in both Argentina and Iran gained empowerment, however they did so differently. As women in these countries, there was an immense struggle to express oneself and their freedoms.
In Iran, women struggled in both the private and public sphere of expressing themselves. Women were repressed from doing most things within the public sphere, which did not allow them to have their own identity. The distance between men and women was very wide, therefore there was a lot of hypocrisy. Throughout Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi explains her resistance to the restrictions that were placed on all the women in Iran at the time.
In a photograph that Nafisi had, there were seven women in front of a white was and “according to the law of the land, dressed in black robes and head scarves” revealing that these women …show more content…

This speaks truth to the story of women in Iran. Azar Nafisi’s mission is to show people that there are ways to bring hope to others without protesting the government, and she proves this with teaching seven women in her home. The use of her secret teaching directly shows how the women were empowered during this time, because they were able to peacefully sneak around the Iran government and do what they never could have done before. Along with the picture of the seven women previously mentioned, they took another. However, this time they did not have on their scarves and robes, instead they were all freely expressing themselves and showing the alternate reality they had been living in (Nafisi,

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